Call for proposals

European Research Area Network – Smart Grids Plus - 2nd Joint Call for Transnational RDD projects on Smart Grids ERAnet-SG+2 Closed!

The main challenges are:

Enabling an increased flexibility of the power system to cope with the growing share of intermittent, variable and decentralised renewable generation and managing the complex interactions.
Increase network capacity to support increased generation and transmission resulting from renewables and in support of the internal energy market.
Provide information, services, market a rchitectures and privacy guarantees to support open markets for energy products and services, whilst facilitating the active participation of customers

The essential innovations to be achieved can be seen in three layers:

The ERA-Net Smart Grids Plus partners have established a set of desirable charac-teristics for project proposals:

The Community provisional funding available for the call for proposals is:

Opened to the following bodies or institutes with legal status established in the covered areas:

Bodies or institutes must have their registered legal seat in one of the countries taking part in the Programme which are:

Directorate-General for Research